Resources for study of women, gender, sexuality and art

The only anthology to date to consider many different types of Latin American women artists and to explore the traditions they share.

Becoming Modern, Becoming Tradition examines the relationships among women, nationalism, racial identity, and modernity before, during, and after the Mexican Revolution. In this innovative study, Adriana Zavala demonstrates that the image of Mexican womanhood, whether stereotyped as Indian, urban, modern, sexually "degenerate," or otherwise, was symbolically charged in complex ways both before and after the so-called postrevolutionary cultural renaissance, and that crucial aspects of postrevolutionary culture remained rooted in nineteenth-century conceptions of woman as the bearer of cultural and social tradition. Focusing on images of women in a variety of contexts-including works by such artists as Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, María Izquierdo, and Frida Kahlo, as well as films, pornographic photos, and beauty pageant advertisements-this book explores the complex and often fraught role played by visual culture in the social and political debates that raged over the concept of womanhood and the transformation of Mexican identity in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

For well over a thousand years Chinese and Japanese women created, commissioned, collected and used paintings, yet until recently this fact has scarcely been acknowledged in the study of East Asian art by Westerners.

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Divides into three separate dictionaries containing very brief biographical entries on women painters, sculptors, printmakers, and ceramic designers. Section 1 (1973) is Jim Collins's original compilation of Women Artists in America. Section 2 (1975) is an update, concentrating primarily on American women artists working in the the early 1970s. Section 3 (1980) is Glenn B. Opitz's update that includes all of the 20th-century artists omitted from the first two sections.

Provides essential documentation on United States women sculptors alive in 1986. Entries include education and training, selected individual and group exhibitions, public and private collections, awards, brief bibliographies, and an artist's statement. Each entry features a photograph illustrating a major direction in the artist's work.

Comprehensive coverage of 20th-century women artists from Canada, Mexico, and the United States born before 1960. Each entry concludes with a brief bibliography. Includes b/w reproductions of one key artwork by each artist.

Divides into four sections on women artists: Native American, Latin American, African American, and Asian Pacific American. Entry on each artist includes career summary, lists of exhibitions and recent group exhibitions, publications, artist statement, and biographical essay. Defines itself as "a modest attempt to rectify the inequality of information on women artists of color."